it's not really a bad comparison seeing as Beirut is awesome :D the first time I saw you guys I said to Pete afterwards that it reminded me of Architecture in Helsinki, and he got very overexcited. Although he seems to get quite excited about a lot of not very exciting things.

Oh and I did put a Beirut album on once when having a meal with my girlfriend and she thought it was you guys. But then she got a bit weirded out as she thought I'd put on a band that her brother is in when I was trying to get my ROMANCE ON :D

I saw them on the bandstand at Glastonbury one year. A great band, that as far as I know, don't exist anymore. Sold absolutely nothing apart from in Russia where they had top ten singles. The singer was a mentalist who made Iggy Pop look like Will Young. The Drummer Seb Roachford went on to form Polar Bear (I think), an experimental jazz outifit that are always up for the Mercury Prize but never win.

Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy)? I must confess I haven't heard much of his stuff, but I do vividly remember that his voice is very similar to Zach Condon's and so is the music. Though this may be my mind playing tricks on me.